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No Royal Visit For The Working Class

Ian Waller THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED by John Walker Seeker & Warburg, £9.95 F or nearly a thousand years British monarchs have been dispensing honours to raise money, award......

Books

`The most popular man in England' Asa Briggs HENRY BROUGHAM: 1778-1868 HIS PUBLIC CAREER by Robert Stewart The Bodley Head, f18 F ew 19th-century politicians were so......

The Bawdy Hand Writes On

Mark Amory THE PRICK OF NOON by Peter de Vries Gollancz, £8.95 P eter de Vries never stops making jokes — some of them bad, some of them not worth the elaborate setting up they......